Thursday, March 18, 2010

Sci-Fi Movie Mags

Although this site is about "monster mags", that went out of style when Star Wars and Starlog/Fangoria came along. The permanent galleries will still be reserved for those old style mags, but that doesn't mean we can't have a little fun posting a few covers, in this blog, of those sci-fi and horror (as apposed to "monster") mags from later years!

Here's one thing I just happened to have scanned, so let's get the ball rolling. This is Science Fiction Illustrated: 1977, from L/C Print Publications in 1977. You can see that it's mostly made up of 1976 movies (King Kong, Sinbad and Logan's Run), Star Wars having not yet been released. Anybody remember this one-shot?

Here's a further list of US and UK prozine titles, just from the late '70s!

Many of the post Star Wars titles like Star Warp, Space Wars and the like, were by Myron Fass and his crew. These are the post-Eerie Publications "genre" mags that they put out. The mags are all really cheaply put together and probably cost very little to produce.

Yes, there's always somebody trying to get a share of the market (whatever that market may be). It's surprising that a good number of the titles were well produced, written and edited! See next post for more examples.